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Conferences & Residencies Database
Looking to meet up with agents and editors? To join a supportive writing community? Or to find the perfect environment to fuel your writing practice? The Conferences & Residencies database includes details about over two hundred writing conferences, writers residencies, and literary festivals.
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Elephant Rock Retreat for Writing and Yoga Residency Birchwood, WI Elephant Rock Summer Solstice Retreat for Writing and Yoga offers five-day residencies from June 16 to June 21 to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at Stout's Island Lodge... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 6/16/13 | 3/15/13 | |
Norman Mailer Writers Colony Residency Provincetown, MA The Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts, offers monthlong residencies from May 26 to June 23 for fiction writers, June 21 to July 21 for... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 3/16/13 | ||
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Wesleyan Writers Conference Conference Middletown, CT The 57th annual Wesleyan Writers Conference will be held from June 12 to June 16 at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The conference offers seminars and workshops in poetry, fiction,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 6/12/13 | 3/22/13 | |
Aspen Summer Words Festival Aspen, CO The 37th annual Aspen Summer Words Writing Retreat and Literary Festival will be held from June 16 to June 21 in Aspen, Colorado. The retreat offers workshops in poetry, fiction,... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 6/16/13 | 3/31/13 | |
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Ontario Writers' Conference Conference Ontario, Canada The 2013 Ontario Writers’ Conference will be held on May 4 in Ajax, Ontario, approximately 25 miles northeast of Toronto. The program features readings, talks, master classes, book... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 5/4/13 | 3/31/13 | |
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Hub City Writers Project Residency Spartanburg, SC The Hub City Writers Project offers one summer residency at the Writers House in Spartanburg, South Carolina, from June 15 to August 24 to an emerging writer who has completed... |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | No | 6/15/13 | 4/1/13 |